Fundamentals of Manufacturing Materials, Processes & Systems

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COURSE OUTLINE 

Introduction to Manufacturing: Types of manufacturing industries, materials used in manufacturing and properties of materials, and different processing operation.

Sand Casting:

• Introduction: Sand casting, molding, heating, pouring, solidification, and cooling. Pattern: making, material, types, construction, pattern allowances.

• Core: making, types, sand conditioning, testing of the sand, molding process, tools and equipment, molding machines, different types of casting, cleaning and finishing of castings, an inspection of castings.

Permanent Mold Casting (PMC): Introduction, types of PMC, gravity die casting, and its types. Pressure die casting, Centrifugal casting, and their types. Furnaces used in PMC.

Metal Forming:
Fundamentals, Types, hot, warm, and cold working.
Bulk Deformation Processes:

• Rolling; rolled products, rolling types: flat, shape, thread, gear, ring rolling, and rolling mill configurations.

• Forging; open die, impression die, press, upset, roll, net shape, isothermal forging, and swaging.

• Extrusion; solid & hollow shapes, direct & indirect, hot & cold, continuous & discrete, impact extrusion, hydrostatic.

• Drawing; bar, wire, tube drawing and its types like tube sinking, fixed mandrel, floating plug.
  Other metal-forming processes; roll extrusion, riveting, staking, peening, coining, rubbing, and burnishing.

Sheet metal forming processes: Shearing operations: slitting, blanking, piercing, cutoff, parting, dinking, slotting, perforating, notching, semi-notching, lancing, nibbling, trimming, shaving, fine blanking. Bending operations: V bending, edge bending, flanging, curling, hemming, seaming. Drawing operations like deep and shallow drawing, and embossing.

Welding Processes: Classification, Fusion welding and its types such as oxyfuel gas welding and oxygen torch cutting, arc welding (shielded metal, flux-cored, gas metal, submerged, gas tungsten, plasma, stud welding, Arc cutting), resistance welding (spot, seam and projection. Heating, pressure, current control and power supply for resistance welding).
Solid-state welding and its types include diffusion welding, friction welding, and ultrasonic welding.

• Other welding processes: Forge, Roll, Friction, Explosion, Thermic, Electron beam, Laser welding and cutting, Brazing and Soldering.

Fabrication of Plastics: Casting, Blow molding and its types, Compression molding, Transfer molding, Cold molding, Injection molding: Injection molding machine, mold design, and construction, types of mold, cooling and ejection of mold, Reaction injection molding, Welding of plastics.

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COURSE OUTLINE IN DETAIL

INTRODUCTION TO MANUFACTURING PROCESSES:

Lecture 1

• Introduction to Manufacturing Processes

• What is manufacturing

• Manufacturing Industries

• Manufacturing Products

• Production Quantity and Product variety

• Materials in Manufacturing

• Manufacturing Processes (Processing operations and Assembly operations)

Sand Casting:

Lecture 2

• Overview of casting technologies

• Difference between casting and molding

• Advantages and Disadvantages of casting processes

• Casting Processes (Expendable mold casting and permanent mold casting)

Lecture 3

• Sand casting and Engineering analysis of sand casting y sand

• Pouring and Engineering Analysis of Pouring

• Flow rate and time required to fill the mold

• Fluidity

• Solidification and Cooling

Lecture 4

• Solidification of pure metals and alloys (Alloys and Eutectic Alloys)

• Solidification time and Shrinkage

• Directional Solidification

Lecture 5

• Riser Design with Exercise Problems.

Lecture 6

• Pattern for casting

• Materials used for pattern

• Types of pattern

• Mold making and Classification of sand molds

• What is foundry sand?

Lecture 7

• Buoyancy Force

• Metal casting processes

• Shell molding

• Advantages and Disadvantages of Shell molding

• Vacuum molding

• Advantages and Disadvantages of Vacuum molding

• Expanded Polystyrene Casting

• Advantages and Disadvantages of Expanded Polystyrene Casting

• Investment casting

• Plaster and Ceramic Mold casting

PERMANENT MOLD CASTING (PMC):

Lecture 8

• Types of pattern allowance (Shrinkage and contraction allowance, Draft allowance, Machining allowance, and Distortion allowance)

• Permanent mold casting and its Applications.

• Slush casting

• Low-pressure casting

• Vacuum permanent mold casting

• Die casting (Hot and cold chamber die casting)

• Advantages and Limitations

• Centrifugal casting and Semi centrifugal casting

Lecture 9

• Furnaces

• Cupolas Furnace

• Direct Fuel Fired Furnace

• Crucible Furnace

• Electric Arc Furnace

• Induction Furnace

METAL FORMING PROCESSES:

Lecture 10

• Fundamentals of metal forming

• Types of deformation processes of metal

• Bulk deformation (Rolling, Forging, Extrusion, Wire Drawing)

• Sheet metal working

• Stress-Strain Curve

• Derivation of the relation between stress and strain

• Flow stress and Average flow stress

• The temperature in metal forming (Cold working and Hot-working)

• Recrystallization

• Iso thermal forming (recovery and Grain growth)

• Strain rate Sensitivity

Lecture 11

• Introduction of rolling

• Shapes used for rolling

• Types of rolling

• Working on the rolling process

• Analysis of the rolling

• Rolling mills

• No-Slip Point for rolling

• Flatness control and rolling defect

Lecture 12

• Numerical Problems related to the rolling process

Lecture 13

• Introduction to forging

• Classification of forging

• Types of forging

• Analysis of the forging

• Barreling effect in forging

• Open Die forging and its practices

• Impression Die forging and its practices

• Advantages and Limitations of Impression Die forging

• Fleshless forging

• Forging Press and Forging Hammers

Lecture 14

• Numerical Problems related to the forging process

Lecture 15

• Introduction to the extrusion process

• Classification of extrusion

• Direct and Indirect extrusion

• Hot and Cold extrusion

• Direct and Continuous extrusion

• Analysis of the extrusion process

• Effect of friction on extrusion

• Extrusion Dies and Orifice

• Extrusion press and other extrusion processes

Lecture 16

• Numerical Problems related to the extrusion process

• Introduction to Drawing

• Difference between drawing and wire drawing

• Bar Drawing

• Wire Drawing

• Features of Draw Die

• Preparation of the work

• Analysis of the drawing process

SHEET METAL FORMING PROCESSES:

Lecture 17

• Introduction to sheet metal cutting process

• Characteristics of Edges

• Types of sheet metal cutting

• Shearing

• Blanking and Punching

• Clearance in Sheet metal cutting

• Analysis of sheet metal cutting processes

• Numerical Problems related to the sheet metal cutting process

Lecture 18

• Introduction of sheet metal bending process

• Types of sheet metal bending

• Analysis of the sheet metal bending process

• Numerical Problems related to the sheet metal bending process

• Spring Back

Lecture 19

• Introduction to the drawing process

• Mechanics of drawing

• Stages of deformation

• Analysis of the drawing process

• Tests of Drawing Feasibility

• Blank force and blank size determination

• Numerical Problems related to the drawing process

Lecture 20

• Other drawing processes (Redrawing, Reverse Drawing and Drawing without Blank holder)

• Defects in Drawing

• The operation performed with metal tooling

• Ironing

• Coining & Embossing

• Lancing & Twisting

• The operation performed with flexible Rubber tooling

• Guerin and Hydroforming process

Lecture 21

• Numerical Problems related to the other drawing processes

WELDING PROCESS:

Lecture 22

• Fundamentals of welding

• Difference between joining and welding

• Advantages and Disadvantages of Welding

• History of welding

• Types of the welding process

• Components used for welding process (Filler material, Flux, and Electrolyte)

• Consumable and Non-consumable electrolyte

• Welding positions

• Welding Electrode Nomenclature

• Type of Weld Joints (Butt joint, Corner Joint, Lap joint, Tee Joint, Edge Joint)

• Types of Weld (Filler Weld, Groove Weld, Plug weld or slot weld, Spot and Seam weld, Flange and Surface Weld)

• Features of Fusion Welded Joints

• Physics of welding (Power Density and Numerical of Power Density)

• Heat Balance in Fusion Welding

• Welding as Commercial Operation

• Automation in Welding (Machine, Automatic and Robotic)

• Welding Safety

Lecture 23

• Welding Categories (Fusion Welding, Solid State Welding, Soldering and Brazing)

• Arc Welding

• Arc Shielding

• The power source in Arc welding

• Types of Arc Welding (Shielding metal arc welding, Gas Metal Arc Welding, Flux Cored Arc Welding, Submerged Arc Welding,

• Gas Tungsten welding

• Plasma arc welding

Lecture 24

• Oxyfuel arc welding

• Oxyacetylene welding

• Resistance welding

• Spot Welding

• Resistance seam welding

• Resistance projection welding

• Energy beam welding (Electron beam welding, Laser beam welding)

• Numerical Problems related to the welding processes

Lecture 25

• Numerical Problems Related to the welding processes

Lecture 26

• Solid-state welding

• Types of solid-state welding

• (Diffusion welding, Friction welding, and Ultrasonic welding)

• Welding Defects of Solid State Welding

• Brazing and Soldering

FABRICATION OF PLASTICS:

Lecture 27

• Plastics

• Type of Plastics

• Properties of polymer melt (Viscosity and Viscoelasticity)

• Extrusion process for Plastics in detail

• Extruder Screw

• Feed Section

• Compression Section

• Metering Section

• Process Parameters

• Solid and Hollow Profiles

• Wire and Tube coating

• Defects in the extrusion process

Lecture 28

• Injection molding for Plastics in detail

• Clamping

• Injection

• Cooling

• Ejection

• Application and Material

• Advantages and Disadvantages

Lecture 29

• Blow Molding

• Extrusion Blow Molding

• Injection Blow Molding

• Stretched Blow Molding

• Compression Molding

• Transfer Molding (A pot transfer molding and B plunger-type transfer molding)

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